One of the dirtiest words in both Arab and BDS media is “normalization” – anything that treats Israel and Israeli Jews as anything but disgusting entities.
In 2011, +972 Magazine once published a BDS group’s explanation of what is so horrible about normalization, and some of it sounds like parody:
A key principle that underlines the term normalization is that it is entirely based on political, rather than racial, considerations and is therefore in perfect harmony with the BDS movement’s rejection of all forms of racism and racial discrimination. Countering normalization is a means to resist oppression, its mechanisms and structures. As such, it is categorically unrelated to or conditioned upon the identity of the oppressor.
Oh really? Because later on in that same document Israeli Arabs are described as victims of coercion:
Palestinian citizens of Israel ….may be confronted with two forms of normalization. The first, which we may call coercive everyday relations, are those relations that a colonized people, and those living under apartheid, are forced to take part in if they are to survive, conduct their everyday lives and make a living within the established oppressive structures. For the Palestinian citizens of Israel, as taxpayers, such coercive everyday relations include daily employment in Israeli places of work and the use of public services and institutions such as schools, universities and hospitals.
Can you believe it? Israeli Arabs are being coerced into working and using public services – exactly like their oppressors!
Equality is the new apartheid.
But if the BDSers consider Israeli Arabs to be victims of coercion, then who are the oppressors? Why, they are Israeli non-Arabs, pretty much all of who happen to be Jews!
What more proof do you need that the BDS movement is antisemitic?
When Arabs use the term, they are no less antisemitic. An example this weeks comes from Palestinian newspaper Al Quds News, which is upset over Dubai’s publicly acknowledging a synagogue in the Emirates.
At a time when the Arab arena was preoccupied with the tragedy that struck Lebanonm when popular and Arab and international media is preoccupied with the results of the disaster that spread in most parts of the Lebanese capital, the UAE authorities inaugurated the Dubai Synagogue, and set up on the eighth of August, the first public "Jewish" Sabbath prayer in Arabia ...
While Beirut collects the remains of the dead from the catastrophic explosion, and the citizens are working to remove the effects of the destruction that extended over an area estimated at 15 square kilometers, the Zionist occupation authorities and their media circles celebrated the establishment and opening of the "Dubai Synagogue".
This step constitutes further emphasis on strengthening the rush towards "normalization" between the Emirates and the Zionist enemy entity, and the rapprochement between them, including enabling the international community in Dubai and Abu Dhabi to practice overt activities, and bring it out from secrecy to overt .
What exactly does the Dubai synagogue, set up by Jewish businessmen who work in the UAE, have to do with Israel? I don’t see any Israeli flags in this video of the small prayer space:
The newspaper sees a synagogue and says it is a terrible thing, because to them it represents normalization with Israel. Anything that makes Jews look human or that gives them rights in an Arab country is automatically demonized as Zionist, and therefore unacceptable.
People who are against “normalization” are against treating most Jews as human beings.